Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]
… the years 1788, 1789, and 1790 (London: T. Cadell nd W. Davies, 1797). Résumé This entry discusses the various forms of public sociability in pre-revolutionary Saint Domingue and how they became increasingly racialised. Despite European … in marriages and business; and the theatre. The entry shows how racialisation shaped the development of Saint-Domingue’s public sphere, setting up a clash between whites and free people of colour with the coming of the French Revolution. … the colony. ‘Deprived of the [Parisian] promenade’, one journalist wrote in 1786, ‘we have only the theatre as a public meeting point.’ 15 Despite the opening of some bookstores, coffeehouses and dance halls after the 1770s, the celebrated …
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